Why is Lead Used in Pencils Even Though Lead is Poisonous?
Why is lead used in pencils even though lead is poisonous?
Reason Behind the Use of Lead in a Pencil
The pencil tool-bar is lead-free, and it never has been. Pencils contain a form of solid carbon known as graphite. According to Henry Petrosky’s book, Pencil, Graphite, Pencil Lead, it was first developed and popularized in the 1600s. Be the first to use graphite is simply dug up, the mineral from the hills, and it was found that it could be cut into sticks and used as a perfect writing tool. For 1600 years, no one knew that the chemical nature of the material, such as chemistry, was still in its infancy. Because of this, the written material was also, in the case of metallic lead, but he had a dark complexion, and people had begun to call the “black lead”. In the end, the name of the pencil core is shortened to “stay the same”.
– Written By Shivani Thakkar
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